Three Alternatives To Disqus For Blog Comments

Some time ago we looked at alternatives to using Disqus on WordPress. Disqus is an excellent comment system and it’s easy to install on WordPress and any other site, but I thought it was worth the effort to take a look at what else is out there. In recent days, since Disqus announced that they were to begin serving adverts in comment threads, the topic has come to mind once again. There’s nothing wrong with advertising, of course, but it puts a fine point on the way that Disqus, a free service, generates revenue; namely, by using the data it collects from publisher’s sites to target advertising. My data because I write posts, but also that of the people who are commenting so the adverts can be better targeted.

I’m not paranoid about exchanging my private data for services: I’m an enthusiastic user of Google’s services and I understand the payoffs involved. What I’m slightly more hesitant to do is to make that decision on behalf of readers who make comments on blogs I write for. As you can see we use Disqus comments on this blog, but without the advertising turned on.

But Disqus isn’t the only game in town. It’s certainly one of the best hosted SaaS commenting systems and it has an enormous number of users, but for site owners and bloggers who want to take control of their data, there are other options.

In this article, I’d like to take a look at self-hosted alternatives to Disqus that can be integrated with any site (provided you have some coding ability).

HashOver is a self-hosted commenting system that bills itself as a replacement for “Disqusting” third-party comment services. HashOver is hosted on a server and can be included on any web pages with a snippet of JavaScript, much like Disqus. Although the examples on the HashOver site aren’t much to look at, of course, it can be styled with CSS to match the site to which it is added.

HashOver include much of the functionality of a third-party comment system, with the advantage being that the date remains firmly in your possession.

Isso is another self-hosted commenting service designed to take the place of Disqus. The comment server is written in Python with an SQLite backend and the project can be added to any site with the inclusion of a JavaScript file. It has many of the features that bloggers have come to expect from comment solutions, in addition to some nifty extras like Markdown support and a Disqus comment importer.

Vanilla is an open source forum and commenting platform. It’s probably one of the most mature and feature rich of the options I’ve discussed here today. At heart, Vanilla was created for building forums, but it also has an excellent comment system.

As you can see, if you have any concerns about entrusting your commenters’ data to a third-party, you have plenty of options for implementing feature-rich and private self-hosted open source alternatives.

It might be easy to avoid spam, but for an older demographic is is SUPER difficult to login to.

Tazru333

From my perspective Disqus *is* Spam, they are decidedly Right Wing and keep trying to sell ideas and products. It might be OK for Blogs, but many news sites I like have already dropped Disqus. FaceBook is getting worse by the day, and the FB alternatives have yet to become populated enough to be worthwhile.

R. V. Datmir

What exactly makes Disqus spam? Of course there are a lot of bad comments and not just on Disqus; the opposite is also true—there are many good, well-considered ones too. As to a right wing bias, once again, when all and sundry can use the platform, there are bound to be some very controversial statements. Besides (at least when religion is not involved), I have found the Right Wing to be much more polite with dissenters, particularly when disagreement is politely voiced. Right wingers may not always agree with me, but they are more likely to hear me out before criticising my comments.

Then there is trying to sell things; you do realise that PEOPLE run Disqus, and they have to have things like food, shelter, and basic comforts, right? And since it costs money merely to exist as a human being, all that selling makes sense. That does not even begin to enumerate the costs of running a large website.

And let us all please ignore the lunatic fringes. Let us not strive to suppress the alt-right but either ignore them or ridicule them. Censorship says we take them seriously and they will exploit that. It will convince them further that they are right. Alt-righters should be made to ask uncomfortable (for them) questions. When that is not possible, they are best treated as a slideshow attraction, for all and sundry to gawk and point at.

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William Munny

“they are decidedly Right Wing”

LOL! Yeah, sure. They’re SO “right wing” that they just pulled their service from Infowars.

Bob–Louie

EXACTLY! They’re as leftist as the other censor-hungry speech controllers out there: Facebook, Alphabet (Google, YouTube, et al), Twitter and way too many others.

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Wow! This is really a good post with the information about 3 alternatives of
disqus and these are really unknown to me and I think most of the
people don’t have any idea about these 3 alternatives. Thanks for the
information.

I’m considering an alternative as Disqus has some strange UI quirks for me and I would rather not inflicts that on my users.

Support of the ask a question in our community and hope someone answers with a useful response is not support.

Alexxthegreat

Have had so many problems with disqus…..I have stopped commenting on those site using that forum.
Too many ads…too many evil viruses……would rather not be bothered.

Dirty Dutch

Good morning Alexx.

Alexxthegreat

Morning, Dutch….
That virus returned …and it keeps me from seeing comments on WZ….so…I was advised to stay off that site.
Missed reading and making comments…but it is a real stinker…so….I have had to do others sites..not using discus.

Dirty Dutch

Something all the time, isn’t it?

Alexxthegreat

Pretty much….*snort*….went to use my cell phone yesterday and the battery had died….
I think I want to go back in time…..to the horse and buggy……(just kidding )….but life was a bit smoother back then.

Dirty Dutch

Simpler yes. Smoother, I don’t know.

Alexxthegreat

🙂

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Nico

The relation between disqus and viruses escapes me.

Cthulu

So where are all these supposed sites? I’ve searched for all and there’s nothing.

Ziki Ivan

cool article

Priyanka P

Now commenting is becoming a great problem. Even with discus .Many time virus and spam hit and then we have to stop .

zakius

I’m pretty sure that self-hosted isn’t alternative for disqus, the main reasons to use disqus are: you don’t have to store user data, users don’t need to create yet another account

One of the things I like but don’t really see much of in my own site is the “Also on MYSITE” feature. For a more active site it would be good because it helps link people to other content in your website.

Bob–Louie

True, but it’s worth it to get your users out from under the long arm of leftiust corporate data collection and censorship.

zakius

it makes sense only if they are freaks who are willing to put extra effort into this, if not… disqus it is! it’s just SO much simpler to use

Thanks for the comment. We note our use of Disqus in the blog post, but just because we use it, that doesn’t make it right for everyone else. And now with ads looking to be a forced feature, many more will probably decide it is not right for them.

John T

Check https://feedgun.com which works on pulling comments from different sources like YouTube videos, existing wordpress sites, facebook pages and even DIsqus account and combine them all together and publish them on any of your webpages, and it all works automatically once you set them where to pull and where to publish.

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Garry

And the fact that, all users have to confirm their email…even after they login with disqus. Hardly anyone come back to comment. Specially for non tech sites even not everyone remember their disqus account if they are logout.

I’m trying to understand the model you have for remarkbox, especially how the “Free” one compares to Disqus. For a small self-hosted blog does one still need to pay for the service since I have my own domain?

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Disqus is the great tool where we can check our whole comments in our credentials zone. You can see the approval status. This made my work very easy.
Thank you.

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Not too much research behind this article. Disqus has a lot of limitations, contrary to what the author writes.

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